You can open the Variation Manager using the shelf button or via the Atoms Menu: Atoms > Variations > Agents Variation Manager
The Variation Manager
The variation manager is the tool for building the association table for your variations.
As first thing a user should add a new agent type and give it a name. This should be exactly as your agent type name. You can do this by pressing the "Add agent type" button.
You can then add new geometries (.geos files) in the Geometry tab and materials in the Material tab.
To add new entries just right click on the list and press on "Add Entry".
You should give unique names for each entry. Environment variables in your file paths are allowed.
The "GeometryGroup" contains the list where the agent type variations are defined.
Right click on the list and then select "Add entry". Each entry will contain a list of geo-material associations.
You can press the plus button for adding a new sub-entries.
From the dropdown lists you will be able to select the geos and materials you added previously.
From the "File" menu, you can save/load your variations to/from a file. You can also reload the content of the table from the scene (Reload from Atoms) or save your changes to the scene (Register to Atoms).
Once you "Register to Atoms" all the data will be stored as a json string in the tcAtomsNode of your scene.
To assign a variation to your agents please use the variations module.
